A Similar Speciation Process Relying on Cellular Stochasticity in Microbial and Cancer Cell Populations
Summary: Similarities between microbial and cancer cells were noticed in recent years and serve as a basis for an atavism theory of cancer. Cancer cells would rely on the reactivation of an ancestral “genetic program” that would have been repressed in metazoan cells. Here we argue that cancer cells...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-09-01
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220307239 |